Fight Club

Director David Fincher (The Game, Seven) , skillfully manipulates the viewers, immersing them in the world of Jack. Computer generated scenes, such as the pan from Jack, with a gun in his mouth, to the van filled with explosives in the basement of the building, take movie-goers on a whirlwind ride through the synaptic m

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A discordant note, or an inharmonious point in the soundtrack, is used as an exclamation point, to draw attention to a twist within the plot. This lends a subversive, unsettlingly supernatural edge to the occurrences within the movie. The soundtrack is entirely electronic in origin, using such diverse samples as 1960’s corporate-martini-bongo-cha-cha to heavy “thrasher” style guitar riffs. Such intuitive use of the medium of digitally altered film is a rare accomplishment.

The soundtrack to Fight Club (written and produced by The Dust Brothers), stands as a landmark of how miscellaneous electronic noise, mixed with a subtle thematic melody, can support and even accentuate dialogue within a film. An explosion in Jack’s condo (slowed down to the point of a millisecond equaling a minute in movie run time) gives the viewer insight on Jack/Tyler’s appreciation of the horrid beauty of chaos. The final result of all this careful musical work is that the soundtrack itself becomes an intangible spice to the “meal” that is the movie itself. At times the lights will actually flicker subtly during a certain scene, to reinforce the actions or words of a character. From the guttering glimmer of a 50-Watt bare bulb, hanging from a tattered ceiling, to the surreally harsh “white-out” of glaring florescent fixtures in a parking garage, the lighting is chosen to show the depressingly impersonal world that Jack is living in. No errors are made, nothing is left to chance, nothing seems out of place in this movie. Only watching the film itself, can you develop the appreciation due the soundtrack.

Careful attention was paid to lighting, throughout the filming of Fight Club.

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